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This year, the Knowledge Hub for WEE in Agriculture partnered with the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development to develop a Terms of Reference and commission a review of donor programmes that…Continue

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The United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment has yet to celebrate its second birthday yet it has already made significant strides towards its goal of building a global movement for women’s economic empowerment engaging decision-makers and…See More

An earlier Practitioner Hub blog outlined a tool that can be used by agribusiness/value chain projects and businesses to analyse their current performance on gender-related activities at the field level and in project…See More

This year, the Knowledge Hub for WEE in Agriculture partnered with the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development to develop a Terms of Reference and commission a review of donor programmes that support agribusiness initiatives to determine the extent to which they promote holistic WEE.A methodology for analysing agribusiness projects from a gender perspective was developed to review gender-related initiatives at the field level and in project management using a four-point scale.Read the…See More

‘We forget our tiredness when the kiss is there.’ Nikki van der Gaag reports from the Philippines on a partnership that is changing ideas about men’s and women’s roles in the home.There is a bright red advertisement on the road from Tacloban airport to the town. It has a photograph of a woman with pale skin and red lipstick and it reads: ‘Give a woman the right colour lipstick and she can conquer the world.’As in most countries, there are lots of ideas in the Philippines about what a woman…See More

One-day social norms workshop following the Pan African Dialogue in Harare. The outcome of the day will be to establish a social norms strategy framework which country teams can then further develop in their own contexts.Contact Regis Mtutu for further information.See More

Our Voices, Perspectives and Experiences: Unpaid Care and Domestic WorkWe believe the Pan African voice, perspectives and experiences are critical to ensure the Global South addresses the issue of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW).The dialogue will bring together WE-Care country programmes and WROs in Zimbabwe, Uganda and Ethiopia, along with allies and advocates in other countries in the region also working on unpaid care work. The space will afford participants an opportunity to share…See More

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The United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment has yet to celebrate its second birthday yet it has already made significant strides towards its goal of building a global movement for women’s economic…

‘We forget our tiredness when the kiss is there.’ Nikki van der Gaag reports from the Philippines on a partnership that is changing ideas about men’s and women’s roles in the home.

There is a bright red advertisement on the road from Tacloban airport to the town. It has a photograph of a woman with pale skin and red lipstick and it reads: ‘Give a woman the right colour lipstick and she can conquer the world.’